Up to 755 gallons of crude oil spilled into Lake Michigan.

"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95) 03/31/2014 at 22:33 • Filed to: None

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EDIT: Its up to 1600 gallons now. FUCK YOU. Fuck you BP. Also, fuck the Indiana government for being ludicrously lax with environmental laws. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Bandit > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 03/31/2014 at 22:40

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Eh, at least it's only around Gary, the armpit of Indiana. I love Indiana's lax laws, there is no way my T/A and a risk of my Blazer not passing a strict state inspection. I love that BP logo btw.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 03/31/2014 at 22:41

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Shit happens. Even with the doubling the story now reports, that's an order of magnitude less than a single tanker truck ending up in the drink. *Infinitesimal.* Lake Michigan contains over 1 x10^15 gallons - that's not parts per billion, nor even parts per trillion. Around 1 per quadrillion.

In short - eh.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 22:44

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This is just me being irrationally angry. Still, they have the smallest bit of lake Michigan shoreline and then still manage to fuck it up. Also, BP has been dumping all sorts of shit in the lake for a while now.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis 03/31/2014 at 22:49

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For any real scale refinery cooling process, 1600 gals means they caught it quite fast indeed. Still means they were using really decrepit cooling leads like a bunch of baboons (not to mention single-stage/direct draw of lake water for process use - DURR), but at least it was crude and not, say, benzene.

Justin > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 23:06

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Benzene is some nasty stuff.. i work at one of the steel plants on the lake. spent some time in the coke ovens. Company says water we use from lake gets pumped out cleaner then when it came in....who knows...

Raw coke oven gas also contains various contaminants, which give coke oven gas

its unique characteristics. These consist of:

 Tar vapors

 Light oil vapors (aromatics), consisting mainly of benzene, toluene and

xylene (BTX)

 Naphthalene vapor

 Ammonia gas

 Hydrogen sulfide gas

 Hydrogen cyanide gas

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Justin 03/31/2014 at 23:15

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Tasty. I did pretty well at chemistry at the college level, but never officially picked up much beyond intermediate levels and materials science (B.S.M.E.) At least most of your nutritious and delicious list there are reactive enough not to persist *too* long - some more than others.

Of course, water solubility is a mixed blessing with some of those.

Justin > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/31/2014 at 23:17

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while cooking the coal into coke it is all gaseous and breathed in and you go home smelling of chemical goodness... nothing better!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Justin 03/31/2014 at 23:20

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thedevilinside > Bandit 03/31/2014 at 23:47

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But Indiana Dunes are up there too. The state park and national shoreline beside it are a really nice place to go. I drive 3.5 hrs each way there for day trips 2 or 3 times a year.